来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革第3集第3集》

thousands and thousands of consumers,

以及成千上万的消费者
no one of them big enough to game the market.

没有一位强大到能操纵市场
If you're making--if you're producing wheat or rice,

如果你生产了小麦或是大米
and you say, "The world price is too low.

心想 "小麦和大米的价格太低了
I'm going to drive it up

我要抬高价格
by withholding this year's crop from my 100 acres."

今年我要少种一百公顷的粮食"
That's like, "Hit my hand,"

那就像是在说 "打我吧"
Because you have no market power.

因为你根本没有控制市场的力量
No producer holds a pivotal private technology.

没有一位生产者拥有关键的私人技术
And it's pretty obvious what's meant by that;

很明显 "关键的私人技术"指的是:
a patented technology, or a trade secret

一项专利技术或是一个商业机密
which allows one producer to differentiate him or herself

生产者借此把自己同其他生产者区别开